Wolves 0 – 1 Plymouth & Carl Boyeson

By: Toby | February 28th, 2009

Well 39 seconds was all it took for Wolves to be blown aside again at home as Wolves once again mustered a vague performance which simply wasn’t good enough to score against a side who’d not managed a win in 9 until today, let alone win. The stats below say it all, 55% of the possession and 3 shots on target all afternoon. When Ebanks Blake misfired, we misfired; we’ve become so one dimensional I was left utterly dumbfounded upon the final whistle. I don’t even know where to start picking this apart, it’s so messy I’ve become disheartened by the whole affair. The referee didn’t help our cause, having a stone wall penalty not given, and two other decisions which could have easily resulted in a spot kick on any other day in the Championship, it would seem that this particular referee was having his own little romantic dream of David defeating Goliath, and wasn’t about to let Plymouth being all over our players stop him from letting that happen, time and again decisions were given against Wolves, time and again he’d shake his head.

But the referee isn’t why we lost today. (Certainly doesn’t help when the opposition has 12 men though I’ll admit) It was out complete inability in literally, every area of the pitch. From the back forwards, Hennessey was yet again caught in ponderland half way off his line, the defence was never near inspiring confidence while the midfield never got hold of the ball with any real intention. This coupled with the fact that our forwards were misfiring meant there was only going to be one outcome come 90 minutes, as Merson announced (So I’ve been informed) on Sky Sports News, “they won’t score a goal if they play all night” and he was right, we were lost little boys running around like headless chickens.

All this on a day when both Reading and Cardiff lost too. I’m lost for words as to how much of an opportunity this is that we’ve missed, the chance to put distance on ourselves and Reading doesn’t come along often and we blew it, with Birmingham playing tomorrow we could find ourselves level on points for second space with a tricky away fixture to Crystal Palace on Tuesday.

It’s got to change, there’s no doubt about that, but that’s been the case for weeks now. A week in Spain here, a few intensive training sessions there and nothings stuck, and nothing has come close to plugging the gaps. Henry is now banned for two games due to his 10th booking of the season. Let’s approach this with a positive mind, this will hopefully mean that Jones can be selected again, who without injury or illness has been frozen out of late. I don’t like to question Mick but I hope he swallows his pride on this one and let’s him in from the cold, we could really use his quality right now.

Eurgh. What a way to ruin a perfectly fine Saturday eh? Why do we do this to ourselves?

Let’s hope for something approaching a performance come Tuesday.

Tarra-a-bit.